The sequel to Mortal Instruments has been put on hold, The Guardian reports.

Though the dystopian drama—which starred Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower—was based on a series of buzzy, best-selling young adult novels—it failed to make much of an impact at the box office. Now, producers are dialing back to adjust the course of the sequel, Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes.

“Constantin Film has a long tradition of adapting books to the big screen. Pushing back the start of production of City of Ashes was a decision we did not take lightly,” producer Martin Moszkowicz said in a statement yesterday. “But after speaking with all of our partners on the creative and distribution side, it was clear that it will be beneficial to have more time to reposition the film in the current marketplace. The Mortal Instruments series has an incredibly loyal and ardent fan base and is a best-selling book series. While taking Cassandra Clare’s vision to the screen we want to make sure to draw on the full potential of the franchise.”

Your turn: What didn’t work in the first Mortal Instruments film? What would you change in the sequel?

1. Lilly must close her mouth. Once and forewer. And learn how to do different faces – boring, scary, in love, disgusting – there are lots of them, actually. She can only two – open mouth and eyebrows up. First means everything, second – everything what is left from first.
2. Jamie must look at her as if he is in love with her, not as if she is an amusing cockroach. Which is difficult due to first item. Everything other is allrighty with honorable Arthur.
3. Writers. More about love – if you want Twilight – you must make Twilight. The percentage of love on the screen there is 10 times higher than in TMI.
But don’t forget suffering faces of main Charakters!It is a MUST. BUT EUEBROWS MUST BE AT THE PLACE WHERE THEY BELONG!! They must not run ower the forhead up and down as if they want to scratch it badly.
4. Explain, explain, explain. It is the amusing film. Well, it must have been. Not detective story.

Well to me they actually murdered the book, it’s not like we where waiting for a play to play representation of the book, we know that it’s not possible. But went they go on and take liberties with the most important keys plot, then we have a problem. And why did Clary spend her time being saved by Will and the others although in the book she’s more independent. That was a major turn off for me. Same thing when they went ahead and change what lead Clary and Will to the bones city, and what was that with the vampire hotel, and I’m not even talking about the Institute scene where the heck did they get that. They forgo the introduce of key characters and introduce their own version of things I felt annoyed and seriously wanted my money back.